Top Reasons to Go to Petrified Forest National Park
- Terrific timber: Be mesmerized by the clusters of petrified (fossilized) wood. The trees look like they're made of colorful stone.
- Walls with words: Don't scratch the surface, but see how others did. Ancestors of the Hopi, Zuni, and Navajo left their mark in petroglyphs cut, scratched, or carved into stone.
- Route 66 kicks: A section of the fabled road is preserved in the park, the only section of the highway protected in a national park.
- Triassic treasures: Find an oasis of water in the desert, or at least evidence that it once existed. Clam fossils in the park indicate that waterways once prevailed where sand, stone, and trees now define the land.
- Corps creations: The Painted Desert Inn, a National Historic Landmark, was modernized by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the throes of the Great Depression. It is now a museum and bookstore.
Guidebooks
Fodor's The Complete Guide to the National Parks of the USA: All 63 parks from Maine to American Samoa
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